Many IT organizations today are scratching their heads debating whether the advantages of implementing a Storage Area Network (SAN) solution justify the associated costs. Others are trying to get a ...

Storage-area networks (SAN) are being adopted more frequently today, but uncertainty still exists among users about why to install them and the applications that can make the best use of them. SANs ...

Dr.Casimer M. DeCusatis is a senior engineer for IBM Corporation,eServer Network Hardware Development Laboratory, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer ...

Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use ...

(Internet Protocol storage) Using the IP protocol to connect storage area networks (SANs) in remote locations. SANs can be extended across metropolitan area networks (MANs) and wide area networks ...

What is a storage area network? What are the benefits and pitfalls of installation? How can a SAN fit into your organisation? These questions and more are answered in our Storage Area Network School ...

Back in 1977 Dennis Fairclough had a good idea: build something that would allow multiple small computers to share a single disk drive and in 1979, after his investors forced him to hire Ray Noorda to ...

A lot of suppliers claim to be “market leading” when it comes to software-defined storage (SDS). But to assess those claims, organisations need to understand the technology and what it can do for them ...